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Parade float in Ashland, Kansas

Date: Between 1891 and 1912

View of a horse-drawn parade float advertising N. G. Stevensons, W. T. Carson General Merchandise, Ainsworths Pop and Groceries, Smith’s Millinery Store, McKown Bros. Sell Everything, Neely Headquarters For Good…

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Parade float in Ashland, Kansas

Date: Between 1891 and 1912

View of a horse-drawn parade float advertising Wallingford Bros. Coal & Feed, Ashland, Kansas. The First Ward School is visible in the background.

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Parade float in Ashland, Kansas

Date: Between 1891 and 1912

View of a horse-drawn parade float with a sunflower theme advertising W. T. Carson, Ashland, Kansas. The First Ward School is visible in the background.

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Monroe School in Topeka, Kansas

Date: Between 1927 and 1929

Monroe Elementary, completed in 1927, was one of four segregated black schools operating in Topeka. In 1951 a student of Monroe, Linda Brown, and her father, Oliver Brown, became plaintiffs…

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Francis Marion Steele

Date: 1900

Portrait of F. M. [Francis Marion] Steele, an early southwest Kansas photographer. He was born in Stanton, Illinois, on September 14, 1866, and died January 2, 1936, in Dodge City,…

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Amelia Earhart

Date: Between 1930 and 1937

A photograph of Amelia Earhart and George P. Putnum taken in Rye, New York. Putnam helped coordinate Earhart’s 1928 trans-Atlantic flight and acted as her promoter following the flight. Earhart…